1. 2004. Adventures in Biographical Research: John and William Cormick. Vincent Flannery. Biographical details of the only European known to have met the Bab, William Cormick, and his father John Cormick.
2. 1991 Spring. Missionaries Who Aided the Cause of God. Duane L. Herrmann. Brief account of the work of Dr. William Cormick and Rev. John H. Shedd and their interest in the Bábí Faith.
3. 1848/1918. Dr. Cormick's Accounts of his Personal Impressions of Mirza 'Ali Muhammad, The Báb. Dr. Cormick, E. G. Browne, comp. . A Westerner's account of meeting the Bab in 1848, and an account of separate incidents involving the persecution of Babis.

1. 1848-07-30 —
   Trial of the Báb
   
   The Báb arrived in Tabríz and was brought before a panel of which the 17-year-old Crown Prince Násiri'd-Dín Mírzá was the president. The Báb publicly made His claim that He was the Qá'im. This claim had also been announced to those gathered at Badasht. [Bab140–7; BBR157; BBRSM23, 216; BW18:380; DB314–20; GPB21–2; TN14]
   • The purpose of the public forum was to force the Báb to recant His views; instead He took control of the hearing and embarrassed the clergy. After considerable argument and discussion, they decided He was devoid of reason. [GPB22; BBRSM216]
   • The Báb was bastinadoed. [B145; BBD44; DB320; GPB22; TN14–15] This is the first formal punishment He received. [BBRSM20]
   • This constituted the formal declaration of His mission. [GPB22]
   • The clergy issued a fatwa or legal pronouncement against the Báb condemning Him to death for heresy, but to no purpose as the civil authorities were unwilling to take action against Him. [BBRSM19–20]
   • See Trial of the Báb: Shi'ite Orthodoxy Confronts its Mirror Image by Denis MacEoin.
   • He was first attended by an Irish physician, Dr William Cormick, to ascertain His sanity and later to treat Him for a blow to the face that occurred during the bastinado. Cormick is the only Westerner to have met and conversed with Him. [Bab145; BBR74–5, 497–8 DBXXXIL–XXXIII; Bahá'í Council website]
   • For an account of the life of Dr. William Cormick see Connections by Brendan McNamara.
   • See the YouTube video The Irish Physician Who Met The Báb.

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